Brock Turner: Dreams Destroyed
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Brock Turner had it all: A scholarship to Stanford (it's not Harvard but they try!), all-American boy-next-door good looks, a real shot at Olympic gold swimming for the US Olympic team - his life was one that many people would envy. Everyone believed him to be a super nice guy on his way to do super nice guy things - like represent America in the Olympics and win some medals and then graduate from an almost-but-not-quite Ivy League school. It probably would have happened too if it hadn't been for two Swedish guys bicycling around town at 1am doing mysterious and questionable Swedish things. Brock was caught on top of an unconscious girl beside a dumpster in a back alley. She had no memory of ever meeting Brock and certainly no memory of giving him permission to touch her. This would have been a he said / she said situation that would have quickly turned into a "but who cares what she said" situation if it had not been for two sober witnesses with nothing to gain (other than Olympic gold, the Swedes DO have a swim team...). Brock wrote an 11 page apology and outlined all of his regrets and all of the pain he was suffering. But is that enough to get a passing score from Apologies Accepted? You be the judge (but only after we deliver our verdict and wrap up the case).
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